Never Write Alone! (Unless You Want To)

Omnibook is a place for authors to get creative, exchange ideas, discuss and collaborate. It is a social platform for writing and producing books.

Omnibook is also a place where you can lock everybody else out and get stuck into your upcoming novel, all alone, no disturbance, no peeking!

We made Omnibook this way, because we believe that you can write a better book with the help of your peers. Every author will need to reach out to other writers, to editors and proofreaders, to get feedback or simply to procrastinate until the muse takes hold. Omnibook enables you to check in and out of your writer’s shack whenever you want.

Omnibook allows you to create books in your browser. Real, good-looking paper books you can hold in your hands. Omnibook exports your work into a printable PDF ready for the litho press or self-publishing platforms. It enables you to produce EPUB for digital distributors like Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nook Press, Smashwords or Apple iBookstore. Omnibook is also capable of creating screen PDF, HTML5 and XHTML for websites.

Omnibook is powered by Booktype, web-based open source software. Find out more about Booktype at www.booktype.org.

Getting Started

Open the link to Omnibook in your web browser. In the top right corner you will see a link to Sign In. To write edit a book you will need a user account. Clicking the Sign In link will give you the choice of either signing in or creating an account.

Once you have signed in, the Sign in box will change to My Profile, and your name will be shown in the top right corner of the Home view. If your email address has a Gravatar, it will be shown in the My Profile box. Click the My Dashboard button to access your personal page.

Creating an Account

If you don't have an account yet and the Create Account box is visible, you can make one for yourself with the following steps:

1. Under Create account enter your desired User name, Password, and Full name, then your Email. The security of your Booktype account depends on the strength of the password you set here, so you should avoid using easily-guessed passwords. Your full name is required as it is used for copyright attribution on any works you create or contribute to.
2. Click the Create account button.
3. The new account will be created; you will be signed in, and redirected to the Home view.

Creating a Book

In My Dashboard, click the CREATE NEW BOOK button.

Alternatively, if you happen to be in the Home view, there's a CREATE BOOK button in the Books section.

The Create New Book wizard will open.

The wizard has five steps. The first step is to enter the title of the book. If you happen to enter a title which already exists on the server, the wizard will warn you that there is already a book with this name.

Having entered a title, you can either click the Finish button to create the book, or continue through the remaining four optional steps of the wizard, which are:

• entering a description for your book;
• choosing a copyright license;
• uploading an image to accompany the description of the book; and
• choosing whether or not the book should be hidden in public lists of the books on the server.

All of these items can be entered or changed later.

Note that, by default, your new book is not public unless you untick the Initially hide from others option in the Make Public? step. It can still be accessed by readers who know the direct URL for the book.

Once you press Finish you will be redirected to your new book's Book Details page.

Your new book will now be listed in the My Books section of My Dashboard, together with the other books you have created and those in which you are participating.

My Dashboard

Your Dashboard helps you manage your books and groups, and customise your author profile. To get to it, click the My Dashboard button in the My Profile box in the Home view. Or click your own username on the People view.

You can also reach your dashboard from anywhere by clicking on the three-line menu icon in the top-left corner and selecting My Dashboard.

Your dashboard contains sections for My Profile, My Books, My Groups, and My Recent Activity. 

My Profile

As well as showing your user name, full name, and photo, if you've uploaded one, the My Profile section includes a Follow my changes link, with an orange feed icon next to it.

This link points to an RSS feed of any writing or editing work that you do. Other people, whether logged in or not, can follow your work by subscribing to this feed, using an external feed reader program, a browser-based solution such as Firefox's Live Bookmarks, or a web service such as Feedreader.com.

If you look at another user's profile, you will notice that in addition to the Follow my changes RSS link, there is also a FOLLOW ME button.

You can follow another user's activity by clicking on their FOLLOW ME button. Their name will be added to the Following: list on your profile, and you will receive notifications of their activity, such as creating a book or saving a chapter. Your profile also lists other users who are following you.

To edit your profile, click the Settings button.

In the User settings box, you can edit your Email and Full name if either of those need to be corrected.

Below your full name is a text box where you can type in a description About yourself. If a Gravatar image is available for the email address you used to create your account, that will be used as your Profile image. Alternatively, you can click the Choose file button to upload a profile image from your computer, if you wish.

There is also a field for the Notification filter, which configures the email notifications you will receive. For example, entering a user name prefixed with the @ symbol into this field will mean that all messages from that user will be forwarded to your account email address. Multiple @usernames should be separated with a comma.

Once you have made the changes you want, click the Save changes button.

Over on the right side of the window you can change your account password by entering the Old Password once and the New Password twice. Then click the Change password button.

My Books

The My Books section lists books you have created. If you are contributing to any books which are owned by other users, these will also be listed in this section, under the subheading Participating Books.

At the bottom of each book icon, there are symbols which are links to Edit Book, View Book, and Delete Book. The Delete Book icon is only visible for books that you have created. Read about these functions in the chapters The Edit Interface and Deleting a Book.

If you click anywhere else on the book icon, including on its title, an overview of Book Details will be displayed. 

The My Books section also contains buttons for CREATE NEW BOOK and IMPORT BOOK.

Read about these functions in the chapters Creating a Book and Importing a Book.

My Groups

The My Groups section lists any groups which you have created. If you have joined any groups owned by other users, these will be listed under the subheading Participating Groups.

You can click through to explore the groups listed, or click the CREATE NEW GROUP button to make a new group. A DELETE GROUP button is displayed next to groups which you own.

Read all about groups in the chapters About Groups, Creating a Group, Joining a Group and Adding a Book to a Group.

My Recent Activity

The My Recent Activity section lists the last few things you have done, such as creating a book, saving a chapter or joining a group. Anyone who follows you will be notified of each of these events.

Deleting a Book

In rare circumstances, you may wish to delete a book from your account. To initiate deletion, either click the Delete Book symbol on the book's icon in My Dashboard, or click the Delete Book button on the relevant Book Details page. (If you do not see the trashcan icon in My Dashboard, it means the book belongs to someone else).

The Delete Book dialog will appear. As a safeguard against careless deletion of books, you will be asked to type the full title of the book into the dialog before you are allowed to delete the book.

Deleting a book is an irreversible process. All the data associated with the book will be lost.

The Edit Interface

Once you have created your book, click on its Edit Book icon to enter the edit interface and begin work on your book's content.

The edit interface will be displayed, showing the Table of Contents view.

It's worth taking a little time to get to know the edit interface. At the top right of the page, to the right of your book's title, are the buttons for the different sections of the edit interface.

From left to right, these are:

• Table of Contents (the default view)
• Media
• Cover Manager
• Book History
• Settings
• Publish

Each of these items are explained briefly below, and more detail is provided in later chapters. On the left of the page and visible in every section of the edit interface are three tabs on the theme of communication.

From top to bottom, these tabs are:

• Online Users - who else is currently working on the book
• Chat - a timeline of both manual and automatic notifications
• Notes - a scratch pad for notes which all users collaborating on the book can see

For more detail on these features, see the chapter Communicating.

Table of Contents 

The Table of Contents is where you create new chapters and sections, and initiate the editing of chapters. You can also rearrange the order of sections and chapters, and modify their status. For more detail, see the chapters The Table of Contents and Communicating.

Media

The Media section lists all the images or other files you have uploaded which you can add to your book. You can also upload images and other files here before placing them in a chapter, and you can delete unwanted files if you have the necessary privileges.

Cover Manager

The Cover Manager section allows you to upload and manage covers for your book. You should upload your ebook cover image files (JPEG, GIF or PNG format) in the appropriate dimensions for the output format. Artwork (in TIFF, XCF, PSD, PDF, PS, SVG, EPS, AI or INDD format) for the front cover, spine and back cover of your print books can be uploaded and managed, but will be kept separate from the text of the book when publishing it.

When you click Upload cover, the Enter Meta-data dialogue enables you to specify the title, creator and licence for the image, and associated notes.

Once you have entered the meta-data and clicked Upload cover, the cover image is displayed in the Cover Manager. The image's metadata is visible when you move your pointer over the cover.

You can revise these details at any time by clicking on the cover's Edit Image Data icon.

Book History

In the Book History section you can follow the history of edits and revisions to your book. You can see who has made what changes on what date, and compare revisions.

Click on the chapter link you're interested in to compare revisions. This will take you to a revision comparison interface. If you have ever looked at the edit history of a Wikipedia article, this interface will be familiar to you. Select the radio buttons of two revisions you would like to compare, in the order in which you would prefer them to appear (left column / right column) and click the Compare button.

A 'diff' (difference between) the two chapter revisions will be displayed, with colour coding to indicate which sections of text have been changed, added or deleted.

Settings

In the Settings section, you can configure various aspects of your book including language, licence, custom chapter statuses, metadata, roles, permissions and visibility. Please see the chapter Settings for further information.

Publish

When your book is ready for proofing or final publication, the Publish section contains the settings and workflow required for outputting your work in a number of formats tailored for screen and print. See the chapter Exporting a Book for details.

Table of Contents

As we've seen in the chapter The Edit Interface, the Table of Contents is the default view of this interface. It's where you create new chapters and sections, and initiate the editing of chapters. You can also rearrange sections and chapters using drag and drop, and modify the current status of each chapter.

Chapters and sections are represented as horizontal bars, one above the other. Chapters have a pen-and-paper Edit icon at the left end, whereas sections have a Expand/Collapse arrow.

A section's arrow points downwards when it is expanded (i.e. the chapters it contains are revealed), and points to the right when it is collapsed (i.e. its chapters are hidden). Clicking the Expand/Collapse arrow will alternately expand and collapse the section.

Collapsing and expanding sections is useful for getting an overview of a book which contains many sections and chapters.

You can cause all sections in the table of contents to be expanded or collapsed at the same time by clicking on the Expand All or Collapse All arrow buttons towards the top right corner of the screen.

The purpose of sections

It's common for authors and publishers to divide a book into sections in order to organise and theme the book's content.

Sections act as containers for chapters. A section can contain as many chapters as you like, and behaves as a discrete unit within in the table of contents.

If you don't want your book to have any sections at all, that's fine. Your table of contents can just be a list of standalone chapters.

Equally, it is also possible to have some chapters which are contained within sections and others which are not. For example, you might decide to start your book with a standalone chapter entitled 'Preface', to end it with a standalone chapter called 'Contributors', and to organise all of the intervening chapters of the book into sections.

In short, Booktype can accommodate any arrangement of chapters and sections you want.

Tip: You can see at a glance whether a chapter is standalone or not. Chapters which are contained within sections are indented slightly.

Adding a chapter

To add a new chapter, click the New Chapter button in the top right corner of the table of contents. A Create New Chapter window opens. Enter the title of your new chapter and click Create Chapter.

Your new chapter will appear at the bottom of the table of contents. You can then click on its title, or on its Edit Chapter control, to edit its contents. For details, see the chapter Editing a Chapter.

Adding a section

To add a section to a book, click the New Section button. A Create New Section window opens. Enter the title of your new section and click Create Section.

The new section is created and placed at the bottom of the table of contents.

Arranging chapters and sections

To re-order a chapter or section, click and hold on the item you wish to move, drag it up or down to where you want it to be, and then release to drop it into place. If you are moving a section which contains chapters, the chapters will be moved along with the section.

Take a little time to practice using this drag and drop interface. Once you are familiar with it, arranging your book's table of contents will be quick and accurate.

As explained under the heading Adding a chapter above, when you create a new chapter it appears at the bottom of the table of contents, and is not initially associated with any section. To add your new chapter to a section, drag it up to the desired location.

Tip: If the chapter 'lands' underneath the section to which you want it to belong, but is not indented, drag it towards the right. The chapter should then become indented, indicating that it is now contained by the section.

Chapter and section controls

When you move your pointer over a section or a chapter, controls appear on the right hand side of it. The controls differ between chapters and sections.

Section controls

For sections, the controls are Rename and Delete (in the form of a trash icon):

If you click Rename, a Rename Section window appears. Edit the section name as desired, and click Save, or Cancel to leave it as it is.

If you click the Delete icon, a Remove Section window appears, asking whether you really want to delete the section.

The Remove Section window contains two tick boxes. The Remove button is inactive unless you tick the first of these boxes, confirming that "I understand and agree". If the section you want to remove contains chapters, and you tick only the first box, the section will be removed but the chapters it contained will remain in the table of contents, unassociated with any section.

If you are really sure about delete both a section and the chapters which it contains, you must also tick the second box to confirm that you wish to "Delete chapters under this section".

If you've changed your mind about deleting the section, click the Close button.

Chapter controls

When you move your pointer over a chapter, two controls appear: a Status dropdown menu; and an Edit Chapter button with associated dropdown menu.

By default, the Status dropdown menu contains four options: 'new', 'needs content', 'completed', and 'to be proofed'. When a new chapter is created, it is automatically given the status 'new'.

Setting the status of a chapter helps you and your collaborators to keep track of what has been done and what still needs to be done. The status of each chapter is visible when the Detail View of the table of contents is selected.

The options which appear in the chapter status dropdown menu can be customised to suit your team's workflow. If you have administrator privileges, you can do this in Book Settings. See the chapter Settings for details.

The Edit Chapter control is both a button and a dropdown menu. If you click the Edit Chapter button, you will enter the chapter editing interface. For details of this, see Editing a Chapter.

The dropdown menu accessed by clicking the arrowhead on the right of the Edit Chapter button contains three options: Rename, Hold and Delete.

If you click Rename, a Rename Chapter window appears. Edit the chapter name as desired, and click Save, or Cancel to leave it as it is.

If you click Hold, the chapter is immediately placed 'on hold' and moves from the table of contents. For more about 'holding' a chapter, see the heading Putting Chapters on Hold later in this chapter.

If you click Delete, a Remove Chapter window appears. A warning is displayed, asking whether you are sure you would like to delete the chapter. The Remove button will be inactive unless you tick a box to confirm that "I understand and agree". If you have changed your mind about deleting the chapter, click Close.

Detail view

The Table of Contents is usually shown in its compact view. Click the Detail View button to switch to a view which displays the current status of each chapter.

Putting Chapters on Hold

If you would like to remove a chapter temporarily from your book's table of contents, but be able to retrieve it later, you can put the chapter on hold using the Edit Chapter dropdown menu.

Chapters which are on hold are no longer visible in the table of contents, and will not be included when you publish your book.

To view the chapters on hold, click the Chapters on Hold icon on the right hand side of the table of contents, near the top of the page.

A sidebar will be revealed listing all chapters which are currently on hold.

When you move your pointer over a chapter in Chapters on Hold, three controls will appear: a left-pointing arrow for Unhold, a trash icon for Delete, and an Edit button.

If you click Unhold, the chapter will be removed from the list of chapters on hold and will be returned to its original position in the table of contents.

If you click Delete, a Remove Chapter window appears, featuring the same warning that you encounter if you click Delete on a chapter within the table of contents.

Editing a Chapter

Once you have created a chapter, the next step is to add content to it in the form of text and images. This is probably how you will be spending most of your time: writing, reviewing, editing and updating chapters, as well as inserting and organising images.

In the Table of Contents for the book you are working on, click on the title of the chapter you want to edit, or on the Edit Chapter button that appears when you move your mouse pointer over it.

The Chapter editor opens, showing the chapter title and any text and images that have already been added.

The chapter editor is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). If you can use a word processor, you can use the chapter editor, which does look rather like a simple version of word processors such as Microsoft Word or LibreOffice.

So you can just go ahead and get typing! By default, the text you type will be in the 'Normal Text' (also known as Paragraph) style.

Zooming your view

When you're writing and editing text, you want to be comfortable with the size of that text, and with the width of the editing page on your screen.

You can use your web browser's zoom function to find an on-screen text size that suits you. Zoom away to your heart's content. The size of the text in the product you output is not affected. Here, for example, is how the chapter editor might look in a maximised browser window on a typical monitor (1920 pixels wide) at your web browser's default zoom level (100%).

And here, by contrast, is how the chapter editor might look at a zoom level of 175%.

As you can see, on a large monitor most people will be better off using their browser to zoom the on-screen text. Adjusting the zoom level is quick and easy if you use the standard keyboard shortcut combination of the Control key and the + (plus) key to zoom in, and Control and - (minus) to zoom out.

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, zooming is even easier. Just hold down the Control key and zoom in and out using the scroll wheel.

Editing toolbar

As we've seen, the chapter editor is very reminiscent of a simple word processor, so you won't be surprised to see that at the top of the page is an editing toolbar, featuring a familiar set of tools. There are icons for undo; styles; font family, size and colour; bold, italic and underline; text alignment; bullets and numbering; indenting; and for creating links (internal and external), and inserting images.

Moving your pointer over a toolbar icon will pop up a tooltip to explain its function. Most of these are self-explanatory, but let's have a quick look at a couple of them.

Insert table

Click on the table icon to bring up the Insert Table menu.

Move the sliders to set how many rows and tables you want the table to have, and click OK. Table cells can contain text or images.

You can make adjustments to the table such as inserting or deleting rows or columns at any stage by putting your cursor into the table at the relevant location and clicking the Insert Table icon. You can also delete the table completely.

Insert Link

If there is some text in the chapter which you would like to convert into a web link, select the text and then click the Insert Link icon in the toolbar.

You can also just put your cursor at a point in the text where you want to insert a link, and click the Insert Link icon.

A Link window will appear. 

In the first field, enter the URL of the web page you'd like to link to. If you selected some text before you clicked Insert Link, this will appear in the second field. You can adjust it if you like. If you didn't select any text, enter some here now. Then click Insert Link. The link will appear in your text, underlined and in red.

If you need to change the link later, click anywhere on the link text and then click on the Insert Link icon in the toolbar. The Link window will appear again, and you can make the necessary changes. If you would like to remove the hyperlink while leaving the text intact, click the Break link button.

Insert Link can also be used to create links to other chapters in your book. To do this, click the Insert Link icon, click the dropdown arrow next to "or link to existing chapter", and a list of chapters you can link to will be revealed. Click the desired chapter to add its link to the URL field.

Menu items

At the left hand side of the toolbar are three menu items: Insert, Edit and Tools.

Insert

Clicking Insert footnote in the Insert menu will bring up the Footnote window. Type in your footnote text and click the Insert footnote button. A superscript number is inserted where your cursor was, and a correspondingly numbered note appears at the end of the chapter.

Also available in the Insert menu are Insert horizontal line and Insert page break.

Edit

The Edit menu contains the following features: Find & Replace; Remove styling; Remove formatting; Decrease and Increase Indent (also available in the toolbar); and Edit raw HTML.

The internal chapter format is HTML. So it's easy for someone who knows a little HTML to edit the underlying file directly. Usually you won't need to do this. But if there's a little glitch that you can't fix in the chapter editor, you can use this menu option to bring up the HTML Edit window, in which you can make any required edits to the HTML and click the Set button when finished.

The changes you have made will be immediately visible in the chapter editor.

Tools

The Tools menu contains just a Word count function. As word count functions go, though, it's quite comprehensive, giving word and character counts not only for the chapter but also for the book as a whole.

Saving your work

Laptop batteries go flat. WiFi connections go down. Coffee gets split onto keyboards. To avoid such everyday incidents resulting in the loss of hours of effort, you must save your work regularly.

To save your changes, simply click the big green SAVE button.

The button will turn a paler shade of green to indicate that your work has been successfully saved.

You'll notice that there is a dropdown arrow to the right of the SAVE button. If you click this arrow, three additional choices are presented.

Save and close : this will save your changes and close the Chapter Editor, returning you to the book's Table of Contents.

Save minor change : this will save your changes but will prevent them from being recorded in the Book History.

Save with comment : this will bring up a window in which you can type a comment to accompany your saved changes.

Comments

Comments can help you keep track of what you have done and let your fellow contributors know about the changes you have made to the book.

Any comments you make as you save in this way will be visible in the Book History.

Tabs in the chapter editor

As we saw in the chapter The Edit Interface, there are always at least three tabs on the left-hand side in any of the six views of the edit interface.

In the chapter editor, two more tabs are added. So, working from the top, the tabs visible in the chapter editor are:

• Table of Contents
• Online users
• Chat
• Notes
• Choose your Design

Online users, Chat and Notes are explained in the chapter Communicating.

Table of Contents tab

If you click the Table of Contents tab, a sidebar appears, with the heading Chapters.

This sidebar lists all of your book's sections and chapters. Click on the title of a chapter if you would like to open it in the chapter editor. If the chapter you are currently editing has unsaved changes, a warning will appear asking whether you want to save it. Click OK to save your changes.

If you would like to leave the chapter editor and return to the full table of contents, click the Expand ToC button. Again, if you have unsaved changes, you will be prompted to save them first.

Choose your Design tab

If you click the Choose your Design tab, a sidebar appears. There is a dropdown menu with the option 'Custom style' set by default.

When 'Custom style' is set, controls for the modification of Heading and Paragraph styles are available in the sidebar. You can adjust the heading font family, colour, size and alignment here, as well as the paragraph font family, indent and line height. Adjustments are made to the chapter text immediately, so that you can view the results of these changes in the editing window. Click the reset button to return to the default style attributes. 

If you choose one of the pre-defined themes available on the dropdown menu, which have names set by the page designer such as Academic, the adjustment controls are not available because each of the pre-defined themes is fixed.

Adding Images

When you want to add an image to a chapter you are editing, first locate your cursor where you want the image to appear in the text, and then click the Insert Image icon in the editing toolbar.

An Insert Image window opens.

You can either choose an image from the Media Library, which contains images that have already been uploaded, or upload an image from your computer. Mouse over an image in the Media Library and click the arrowhead icon in the lower left corner to Download or Delete it.

To insert an image from the media library, find the image you want and select it by clicking on it. A preview of the image and technical information about it will appear on the right-hand side of the window.

Optionally, click the EDIT CAPTION button to open fields in which you can update the image title and description. Then click the Insert button. The image will be inserted at your chosen location in the chapter.

To insert an image from your computer, click the Upload Image tab, and then either drag your image onto the window and click Insert, or click the big green button entitled or Select them from folder, select your image from the file picker, and click Insert.

Settings

Book Settings

The Book Settings tab has a cog icon in the upper right corner of the book editing interface. Click on it to change settings for the book you are currently working on.

The tab which opens has four sections: Book, Workflow, Metadata and Security, which contain further pages. Click on any of these page names to configure the related settings.

Language

To change the language in which your book is being written, select it from the dropdown Language menu. If the language of the book is written right to left, for example Arabic or Hebrew, check the Right to left text box, which indicates to Booktype that the spine of the printed book should be bound accordingly. Then click the Save changes button.

License

All books created using Booktype will have a copyright license attached. The dropdown menu contains a selection of frequently used copyright licenses. Select your chosen license and click the Save Changes button to save the setting. If you would like to check the details of a particular license, click the link Read full text of the license. A browser tab will open containing a summary of the license, or the full text, depending on the license selected.

Users with administrator privileges who have access to the Booktype Control Centre can edit the list of licenses which will be available in this dropdown menu. See the chapter Control Centre for details.

Chapter status

Booktype enables book contributors to edit the statuses that are available for assigning to chapters. By default the chapter statuses are: 'new', 'needs content', 'completed', and 'to be proofed'. You can delete existing statuses, add new ones, and re-order them. The redefined chapter statuses will then be available on the status dropdown at the right side of each chapter's bar in the Table of Contents tab.

Book Metadata

The Book Metadata page enables you to set the Title, Short title, Subtitle, Short description, Long description, Publisher, Publisher city, Publication date, Copyright year, Copyright holder, Ebook ISBN and Print ISBN for the book. This information can be embedded in electronic outputs for the book, such as EPUB format.

Roles

In this page you can optionally assign different roles to the contributors to your book, by clicking the Assign button. For example, the 'Editor' role might be able to change every aspect of the book, but only a contributor with the 'Publisher' role would be allowed to export the book in the output formats available. 

Roles can be created and modified in the Booktype Control Centre by a server administrator. See the Control Centre chapter for more details.

Permissions

In this page you can set the default roles for anonymous users (the general public) and registered users (people with a login account on the Booktype server). Normally, anonymous users are not given the ability to edit or publish books, due to the risk of spam. Whether you give these powers to registered users, or not, may depend on the general public being able to create user registrations for themselves. For this reason, you may prefer that only administrators are allowed to create new user accounts, using the Control Centre, rather than the public signing up for accounts via the Registration form link in the Sign in box of the Home view.

Exporting a Book

While your book is being written, it is highly recommend that you download backups to your local computer on a regular basis. The server should be backed up as a matter of course, but in case of disaster it is safer to keep your own copies of your work in a separate location. The recommended format for backups is EPUB, because this type of file can be easily re-uploaded and edited, should the worst happen.

You can export copies of your book at any time from the Publish section, in multiple formats simultaneously. When your book is ready for publication, or if you simply want to download the work in progress, click the Publish button in the top right corner of the interface.

This action opens the Publish section, displaying the Book export, Export history and Book Info areas. The Book Info area displays the description of the book that was entered during the initial creation of the book, or as it was updated in the Book Details page.

Each export format has a checkbox to enable it, and a settings link beneath. Before exporting your book to any of these formats, click the settings link to adjust the output parameters, and the pop-up Book Settings wizard will appear.

Printer's PDF settings

This export format is intended for conventional litho or print on demand book publishing. It offers the best possible control over the appearance of the book pages, which should be printed exactly as rendered. Click the settings link underneath the checkbox to adjust the values for this particular format.

In step 1 of the Book Settings wizard, choose the paper size from the drop-down menu of popular formats, or set the width and height of a custom paper size in millimetres.

In step 2, set the margins and gutter that you require, or leave the defaults as they are.

In step 3, enable headers and footers if you wish, and if so, set the margins for them.

In step 4, there are extra options relating to Printers' PDF format. When printing backgrounds up to the edge of the paper, it is often necessary to have a bleed area and to crop this from the the paper sheet. Crop marks on the PDF help the printer align the trimming machine correctly.

The optional step 5 is for any additional CSS required to adjust the appearance of the book. For example, you might wish all main headings (the H1 element of HTML) to be underlined.

Finally, click the Save button to return to the Publish section.

Screen PDF settings

Screen PDF exports have the same setting steps as Printers' PDF exports, except that in step 4 a cover image can be chosen, instead of crop mark and bleed options. See Cover Manager in the chapter The Edit Interface for more details.

When you have adjusted the settings to your satisfaction, click the Save button to return to the Publish section.

EPUB, MOBI and XHTML settings

EPUB and MOBI exports have only two setting steps in the wizard, Cover and Styling. XHTML exports only have the Styling step for additional CSS.

Click the Save button to return to the Publish section.

Exporting one or more formats

Once you are satisfied with the output settings, check the boxes for the formats you require, and then click the Export your Book button.

Depending on the size and complexity of your book, the export can take from a few seconds to a minute or two. The message Exporting, please wait will be shown.

Once the export has completed, the timestamp of the export will be shown in the Export History area. Click on the purple button to download the exported file. Printers' PDF will be shown as MPDF on the download button.

If you have exported multiple formats, corresponding download buttons will be shown. Click the chevron to the left of the export timestamp to expand a list showing the download size of each output file, and page counts for PDFs.

Deleting or commenting on an export

If you don't want to leave an export on the server for any reason, click the Action drop-down menu on the right side of the export timestamp, then select Remove export. You will be prompted to make sure you really do want to remove it, as all files in this export will be deleted. This action cannot be undone.

Alternatively, you can leave a comment on the export for your fellow authors and editors by selecting Comment from the Action menu. When you have typed in your comment, click the Send Comment button to attach it to this particular timestamped entry in the Export History.

Communicating

When you are contributing to a book, communication is a vital part of the process, whether you are working in a 'book sprint', taking your time on more long-term book production, working locally in the same physical space, or remotely online. Booktype assists collaborative working with live user status listings, chat messages and system notifications.

As we saw in the chapter The Edit Interface, whether you're in the table of contents, editing a chapter, looking at the book history, or anywhere else in the edit interface, three tabs are always visible on the left side of the page:

• Online users
• Chat
• Notes

Online users

Click on the Online users tab to see who is working on the book alongside you. Each username is a link to the user's profile page.

Chat

The Chat tab enables you to chat in 'instant messaging' style with the other people who are working on the book, using the field at the lower end of the tab. Type the message and click the Send button for the message to be delivered to all contributors who are currently editing. This tab also provides real-time system notifications about what's happening with the book. Chat messages are not persistent, so users will only see the messages that have been sent since they began editing the book.

System notifications are generated whenever a user:

• saves a chapter
• creates a new chapter
• renames a chapter
• creates a new section
• saves a book's notes
• joins the editing of a book

As well as the Chat tab, system notifications are also visible on the Book history tab. For an explanation of Book history, see the chapter The Edit Interface.

Notes

The Notes tab is a simple notepad visible to everyone who is working on the book, intended for sharing text snippets and general tips. Unlike messages in the real-time Chat tab, these notes are persistent and are saved with the book, although they will not be present in the published output. This persistence means that contributors who are not currently working on the book will have a chance to read these notes later.

You must click the SAVE NOTE button in order to save changes to notes.

About Groups

Groups are a way of bringing people together to collaborate on books that share a common theme or interest. They can be accessed from various areas of Booktype.

My Dashboard has a groups panel combining My Groups (groups which you have created) and Participating Groups (groups which someone else created and you have joined). It also has a CREATE NEW GROUP button.

Booktype's Home view, meanwhile, has a Groups panel listing the five newest groups, together with a link to view all groups and a CREATE NEW GROUP button.

Click on the view all link to see the All groups page. This lists all the groups, and also has panels showing Active groups and New groups.

Wherever you see the name of a group, you can click on it to view the group's page. The Members box lists the people who have joined the group, and the Books box lists the books that have been added to it. (A book can be added to more than one group, just as a person can be in more than one group).

If you created the group, or if you have administrator privileges, you'll also see a button for GROUP SETTINGS, which allows you to edit the group's name, description and image, and a DELETE GROUP button.

Creating a Group

You will find a CREATE NEW GROUP button in both the My Groups panel of My Dashboard and the Groups panel in the Home view of Booktype.

Clicking either of these buttons will open a Create a new group window. Give your group a Name and a Description of up to 250 characters. Optionally, you can upload a Group image for it. Then click the Create Group button in the lower right corner.

Your new group will be added to the list in the My Groups panel of your Dashboard, and it will also appear in the list of Groups visible to everyone.

Joining a Group

After joining a Booktype server you may want to jump right in and create your own book, or you might wish to find and work with others on a book first.

To join a group, click on Groups in the expanding sidebar menu on the left side,

or click the view all link in the Groups panel on the Home view.

Scroll through the list of All groups to find the group you wish you join, and click on the JOIN THIS GROUP button. You will be immediately added to the group, and the JOIN THIS GROUP button will be replaced by a LEAVE THIS GROUP button.

If at some point you'd like to leave the group, come back to the All groups list and click the LEAVE THIS GROUP button.

Adding a Book to a Group

Once you have created a book or imported a book into Booktype, it will sit in the My Books list on your Dashboard. If you are a member of a group, you may want to add one of your books to the group's list of books as well.

From My Dashboard, click on the group you want to add your book to in the My Groups list.

On the Group page, in the Books section, click the ADD BOOK TO THE GROUP button.

A Select books to add window will appear, with a list of the books you have created. Check the box on the row for the book you want to add to the Group, then click the Add books button in the lower right corner.

Your book will be added to the list of books in the group.

Where to get support

Sourcefabric offers full commercial support for Booktype. Additional support is provided to the Omnibook community.

Forum and mailing list: You can visit the Booktype online support forum, and sign up for the mailing list, at http://forum.sourcefabric.org/categories/booktype-support

This forum is mirrored by the mailing list, so posts on the forum appear on the mailing list and vice versa. You can therefore also post a message there by emailing: [email protected].

To subscribe to forum updates via email, please register or login to the forum by clicking the appropriate link. Then click the 'Subscribe' button at the top of each forum page.

Bug reporting: Omnibook needs your input to improve. If you think you've found a bug, please report it using the form at https://omnibook.pro/_feedback/

That way, the Booktype team can keep track of your problem and notify you when it has been fixed. You can also suggest improvements and new features for Omnibook using this form.

Contact: Finally, when all other avenues have been exhausted, email us directly at [email protected] and we'll try to help!

About this manual

Copyright (C) 2015 Sourcefabric z.ú.

This manual was written by Adam Hyde, Aleksandar Erkalović, Trevor Parsons, Daniel James and the Booktype community. Please add your comments and contributions at: https://omnibook.pro/omnibook-for-creative-writers

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THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

16. Limitation of Liability.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.

If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms, reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee.

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